This article written by Jean-Didier Wagneur, librarian at the National Library of France, is a summary of an article published in French on Gallica blog in January 2018. The author gives a historical account of literary works published in the press throughout the 19th century.
Researchers, librarians, and publishers look to CLOCKSS and other long-term archives to guarantee that the scholarly record will remain intact. CLOCKSS is taking steps to formalize its Succession Plan and ensure the enduring survival of the scholarly content it preserves. Four of CLOCKSS’s twelve library nodes have agreed to continue to preserve the digital content that is preserved in CLOCKSS, if the organization were to cease to exist. The CLOCKSS Succession Plan is part of its Trusted Repository Audit Checklist (TRAC) certification by the Center for Research Libraries.
New opportunities for libraries are highlighted by analysing the roles they could potentially play in citizen science projects. Citizen science is one of the eight pillars of open science identified by the Open Science Policy Platform, an EC Working Group. Several of these roles are illustrated in case studies from institutions where citizen science has already been embraced: University College London, the University of Barcelona, the University of Southern Denmark and Qatar National Library. A snapshot of what libraries have so far achieved in this sphere is presented, as well as the remaining challenges and opportunities.
ABES, the French Bibliographic Agency of Higher Education, has recently issued its 2018-2022 organisation project. ABES new strategic project aims to overhaul the agency’s tools and to enhance relationships with its networks. The ISSN International Centre is mentioned as one of ABES’ main partners in cooperation activities at the national and international levels. ABES actions aim to foster the integration of the identifiers produced by ABES into national and international standards.
LIBER’s 47th Annual Conference in Lille, France brought 440 research library professionals together for a week of discussions focused on doing more with Open Science, and on related topics such as metrics, research data management and copyright reform.
The conference highlights are presented in this post.
The National Diet Library (NDL), which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, has recently released the « National Diet Library bibliographic data creation / provision plan 2018-2020 » (PDF: 386 KB). After introducing the background and the outline, the purpose of the « bibliographic plan 2020 » is detailed. Among the most important tasks of the plan, one is to define how to implement new Japanese cataloging rules, and enhance access to digitized materials published within the National Diet Library Digital Collection, notably the Journal article index.
The IFLA Trend Report identifies five high level trends shaping the information society, spanning access to education, privacy, civic engagement and transformation. Its findings reflect a year’s consultation with a range of experts and stakeholders from different disciplines to map broader societal changes occurring, or likely to occur in the information environment. The IFLA Trend 2018 Update brings in four more expert perspectives and is the latest follow-up of the library community’s discussions on the Trend Report.
The updated 2018–19 edition of the statement titled Recommended Formats Statement released by the Library of Congress identifies hierarchies of the physical and technical characteristics of creative formats, both analog and digital, which maximize the chances for survival and continued accessibility of creative content into the future. This report emphasizes the benefit of electronic delivery of datasets, to reflect the reality of acquiring and managing digital content in modern workflows.
Two OCLC librarians consider the future of the academic library in the context of a diversifying higher education system. The academic library is adapting to the changing research and learning behaviors of its home institution, which are the principal drivers of the library service. The authors explore ways in which libraries are responding to the transition from a collections-based model to a more diffuse services-based model. The model of excellence for libraries will need to be plural, based on strategic fit to the needs of the institution they serve and not on collection size or gate count.
The June issue contains notably an article about the Library of Congress’s BIBFRAME development process (see pp. 15-18) and a report about the 28th Meeting of the Permanent UNIMARC Committee that held in Rome in March 2018 (pp. 41-45).
